“I got banged up a bit and it’s going to keep me from starting tonight,” Quentin said Monday afternoon in the visiting clubhouse at Dodger Stadium. “I wanted to play.”

Monday was scheduled to be Quentin’s first game against the Dodgers — and at Dodger Stadium — since the April 11 incident between the Padres left fielder and Dodgers starting pitcher Zack Greinke at Petco Park.

Quentin charged the mound after getting hit by a Greinke pitch and the pitcher suffered a broken collarbone in the ensuing melee. Quentin was suspended for eight games, which forced him to miss the Padres’ first visit to Dodger Stadium the following week.

Quentin said he hopes to start as the series continues today and Wednesday.

“I’d like to put this behind me,” said Quentin. “I want to get on the field as soon as I can and get everything returned to baseball.”

When asked if he feared retribution from the Dodgers, Quentin said: “The game will dictate all that ... whether or not it’s in the past, it will be baseball. I’m trying to get back out there, trying to play.”

Quentin had played 10 straight games (once as a pinch-hitter) before Monday night. He was 12-for-32 over the last 10 games.

In addition to his recent hitting, Quentin made a diving catch in left-center Saturday night and followed it Sunday with the catch that carried him headfirst into the left-field fence.

Quentin told Padres manager Bud Black on Monday that his head, neck and left shoulder were sore from Sunday’s catch. He also told Black the same thing that he later told the media: that he wanted to start at Dodger Stadium as soon as possible to put the Greinke controversy behind him.

Quentin spoke to Greinke the week after the incident. “It was productive,” said Quentin. “It was unfortunate that he was injured.”

Black said the incident is not new to baseball, but became a major story because of the injury to Greinke.

“When this happened, it was obviously a big story,” said Black. “Now that we’re back here, it’s drawing attention again. It will run its course. There is a huge difference in the coverage of this kind of story now. These kind of events play out in baseball.”

The last time the Padres visited Dodger Stadium, Kyle Blanks was hit three times in two games. There was no incident, although the Padres had questions about one of the three times Blanks was hit.

“The game knows, we can distinguish,” said Black.

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly and several Dodger players had strong comments after the April 11 incident.

“Don was pretty emotional,” said Black. “We spoke behind the cage the next day.”

Notable

Left-hander Robbie Erlin, who won his first major league start for the Padres on Saturday night, capped the week by being named the Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Week. Erlin opened the week on May 27 by shutting out Sacramento on two hits over seven innings while striking out 11.

• First baseman Yonder Alonso missed a third straight start with a right wrist contusion. “I’m swinging the bat but the speed is not 100 percent yet,” he said. “Nature is taking its course. Maybe tomorrow or the next day. It won’t be long.”

• The Padres asked unconditional release waivers Monday on minor league third baseman Edinson Rincon, who was designated for assignment last week to open a spot on the 40-man roster.